In the present study the syllabic organization of utterances from children with DAS is compared to that of normally speaking children by extracting the course of the second formant (F2) across and within syllables. The utterances of children with DAS show more variability within as well as between subjects. There are no syllable boundary effects found in the formant trajectories of either the n...

In order to be efficient communicators, children need to adapt their utterances to the common ground shared between themselves and their conversational partners. One way of doing this is by prosodically highlighting focal information. In this paper we look at one specific prosodic manipulation, namely word duration, asking whether Swedish-speaking children lengthen words to mark focus, as compa...

Monolingual English-speaking children in the United States express social preferences for speakers of their native language with a native accent. Here we explore the nature of children's language-based social preferences through research with children in South Africa, a multilingual nation. Like children in the United States, Xhosa South African children preferred speakers of their first langua...

This paper examines children's attention to cross-situational information during word learning. Korean-speaking children in Korea and English-speaking children in the US were taught four nonce words that referred to novel actions. For each word, children saw four related events: half were shown events that were very similar (Close comparisons), half were shown events that were not as similar (F...

background: developmental sentence scoring (dss) was developed as a numerical measurement and a clinical method based on the morphosyntactic acquisition in the english language. the aim of this study was to develop a new numerical tool similar to dss to assess the morphosyntactic abilities in persian-speaking children.   methods:  in this cross-sectional and comparative study, the language samp...

conclusions the results suggested that pa skills in children with phonological disorders are affected by error type. we also found the type of errors that can play a more effective role in pa investigations as compared to pcc. the results also showed that children with cap require special attention. results the cap group showed significant difference with the nd group in alliteration (p = 0.001...

Children who speak non-standard dialects of English show reduced performance not just in language-oriented topics in school but also in math and science. Technological solutions have been rare exactly because of the nonmainstream nature of their talk, and hence the difficulty in automatically recognizing their speech and responding to it with, for example, computer tutors. In order to work towa...

UNLABELLED The Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) was developed in English to assess 3 components of catastrophizing (rumination, magnification, helplessness). It has been adapted for use and validated with Flemish-speaking children (Pain Catastrophizing Scale for Children [PCS-C]) and French-speaking adolescents. The PCS-C has been back-translated to English and used extensively in research with...

The Reynell Developmental Language Scale (RDLS) and Symbolic Play Test (SPT) have been useful language tests for assessing the language age of children. Both tests have been validated in English-speaking children. However, there have been no studies conducted for Chinese children, whether Mandarin (Northerners) or Cantonese (Southerners) is used as the main dialect. As the Chinese population is...

PURPOSE Recent research suggests that nonword repetition (NWR) and sentence repetition (SR) tasks can be used to discriminate between children with SLI and their typically developing age-matched (TDAM) and younger (TDY) peers. METHOD Fourteen Cantonese-speaking children with SLI and 30 of their TDAM and TDY peers were compared on NWR and SR tasks. NWR of IN nonwords (CV combinations attested ...